Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, Galbraith said, "crises have been avoided by ad hoc action while various window-dressing efforts at student-Faculty consultation have been contrived." He added that such ad hoc action would not survive a serious emergency and that student-Faculty committees will not be taken seriously for long...
...student revolt begins at Harvard, Galbraith said, "No one at Harvard will be trapped by the view--permissible to J. Edgar Hoover, perhaps, but to few others--that trouble is purely the work of self-motivated agitators. Like the tip of an iceberg, the agitators are ever only the visible part of the larger mass...
...Galbraith called attention to the lack of over-all planning in the University. "The resources centrally controlled by the Corporation are heavily committed to maintenance rather than growth," he noted. Since growth has come to depend largely on federal grants, or support from industry, there is a high probability that only those disciplines which are "currently fashionable" or useful to the government will be adequately funded...
...remedy one imagines to be a strong budget committee reflecting the full scientific and scholarly competence of the faculty to establish priorities and to guide money-raising and use," Galbraith concluded...
...This is not in sight," Galbraith observed. "The fact that the well-nourished fields do not complain and the others see little purpose in doing so should not persuade anyone that all is well...